Getting Organized with Post-it Brand and Evernote

October 4, 2013

My desk is always littered with Post-it Notes listing ideas, things to do, and sketches for projects. I love Post-it Notes for getting my ideas down on paper, but I’m always forgetting to bring them along when I need them!

Thanks to Post-it Brand, who sponsored this post, I had the chance last week to visit San Francisco and the Evernote Conference to learn about the new partnership between Post-it Brand and Evernote. Both brands want to help people be more productive. They want to make people’s daily lives easier. And you know how much I love Post-it Notes — so this will take my obsession to the next level!

I had a great time in San Francisco at the Evernote Conference — and got to meet some fantastic people, like:

In the keynote presentation, I learned that Evernote’s goal is to make everyone’s life easier. They call themselves a “100-year startup” because they want to be around that long, and help even more than the 75 million people who already use it. I love that company mission — it’s more than just “making money,” and it is so similar to why I love Post-it Notes: they’re easy to use and they make my life easier (and more colorful!).

With this Post-it Brand and Evernote partnership, you can take your Post-it Notes wherever you go: no more leaving your to-do list at home! You can write, draw, jot on your Post-it Notes (any Post-it Notes and Post-it Big Pads) Then just open Evernote on your smartphone or tablet and take a picture with the camera in Post-it Note mode. Once it’s in Evernote, all of your notes are searchable – it even reads your handwriting — and you can share your notes with anyone.

(In case you haven’t seen it, Evernote is an app that works on your smartphone (iPhone, Android, etc.) and your computer, syncing all of your notes, ideas, Web bookmarks, pictures, and more. It’s free, although there’s a paid premium edition that adds more features. (If you want to try the premium Evernote, look for specially marked packages of Post-it Notes for a free trial offer.))

I love the clean design of the new Post-it Notes dispensers designed with Evernote, too:

I especially liked the Post-it Notes camera mode in Evernote: you can tell it what you want it to do with each of the four colors. You can color-code your Post-it Notes so that a particular color automatically gets categorized in a certain way, like yellow for “to do,” and blue for “ideas.”

Here’s how it works: you click the camera icon at the bottom left of the “Type a quick note” section in the Evernote app on your iPhone or iPad:

(Remember, Evernote works on PCs and many devices — it’s just this photo feature that’s unique to the iOS7 app right now.)

Then, in the camera mode, you can take a quick snapshot of your Post-it Notes — you just choose Post-it Note mode from the bottom menu. You can also customize your note colors to be categorized however you like – it’s easy, as you can see below.

The coolest thing to me is that I can put my digital and “analog” worlds together — I can have all of my Post-it Notes backed up and saved on my computer and on my phone. They’re searchable and always with me — and I can organize those little scraps of my life into one place!

The site even has some great ideas for using Post-it Notes and Evernote to get organized with meals, projects, and more.

You can find the packs of Post-it® Notes with the green Evernote stripe at Staples stores and online through Staples.com, Officemax.com, Officedepot.com, and Quill.com. (These Evernote packs and the limeade-colored Post-It Big Pad packs also come with one month of Evernote Premium. You can pre-order Evernote Note Holders through the Evernote Market; they’re supposed to be available by the end of October 2013.)

It was such fun to attend the Evernote Conference in San Francisco — thanks to Post-it Brand for the chance to learn how to better organize my life and my family’s schedule! There are so many ways I’m going to use these new Post-it Notes in our busy schedules to keep me and my family more organized. I’ll share these ideas with you soon!

Thank you! I use both of these and learning they are coming together is awesome! I am a pencil and paper girl at heart, but technology (Evernote) makes it nice to not let things slip through the cracks. And I LOVED the quiz!April Schmidt recently posted…Menu Planning Board Part 2

I love using Evernote! And this sounds like an awesome addition. Plus who doesn’t love Post-Its? Every time I pass them in a store I want to buy them. They are just so cute. I have them everywhere. Can’t wait to try out this new addition to Evernote.Lara Garner recently posted…Scaling the Wall

I’ve been a post a note user from way back. I would come home from work with one stuck to my shirt to remember something, before smart phones, and he would laugh at me later on in the night and remind me I forgot my note to remind me!! That was about 20 years ago and they are still hanging off my puter and in my work books. LOVE THEM!!! Great post.

The color code is a great idea and I need to take that quiz! I love being organized, but have a tough time STAYING organized when I have to work more things into the mix than were originally there. (does that make sense?) LOL.
Thanks for the great advice and info!
xo

Me too Chris!! I have been using Post-it Notes for years and I just started using Evernote. I’m so excited for the merging of the two brands. I think it’s really going to help my family get more organized. Yay!!

So cool! I’d love to take a quiz to know what type of organizer I am. And I used to use Evernote until I got a new laptop, so thanks for the reminder AND for the info on the app. Super cool – color coding and pictures. That little iphone notebook wasn’t cutting it. I’ll be giving this a try. Thanks, Jen!